S P E C I A L   E D I T I O N
SPATIAL DATABASE
Eyes of the Enterprise
Paul Scarponcini
 Progress in standardization and RDBMS vendor support are bringing spatial information into the IS mainstream.
Treasure Maps for Decision Support
Michael Keeler
 Spatially enabled data warehouses and data marts that expose the relationships among data make for more intelligent decisions.

 

 
E-Commerce Bedrock
AMJAD UMAR Transaction databases are becoming the foundation of e-commerce as it evolves toward more complex, interorganizational transactions.
Keys to the Database
TIM QUINLAN The techniques described here do a much better job of predicting and reducing OLTP locking behavior than crossed fingers ever will.
Sillicon Through the Hourglass
MARILYN FRANKEL AND M. CARL GEHR, JR. The Year 2000 is around the corner. What exactly are the issues involved, and how do they affect DBAs and their databases?
Migrating to Oracle 8
MICHAEL R. AULT The tips described here will keep you on the path to a smooth, safe migration.
EDITOR'S BUFFER
David Stodder One step at a time for data mining.

DATA ARCHITECT
Barbara von Halle The archivist's view of integrity.

ACCORDING TO DATE
C. J. Date Denormalization: What it really means.

VLDB VISION
S. Brobst and M. Monoghan The TPC-D game.

ENTERPRISE VIEW
Terry Moriarty When to reverse engineer your data.

DECISION SUPPORT
Erik Thomsen Tracking sales data with neural nets.

DATA-DRIVEN WORLD
Ian Shoales Let sleeping virtual pets lie.

ACCESS PATH
Thumbs down for Yul?

NEWS BROWSER
A new focus for OMG.

ADVERTISER INDEX
How to contact this month's advertisers.

PRODUCT NEWS
DB2 Universal Database and more.



10-Year Anniversary Section

ONLINE EXTRA
  • The Best of Barbara von Halle.


 
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